Photos New Tab

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Personalized photos from your Google Photos account in your new tabs.

Latest reviews

• (2023-09-02) Zee amin: Adds to my stress with too many distractions. this will not mak google more popular. that is the main reason why I do NOT use MS Edge..... I hate the concept ....that is why i have stuck with Google right from the beginning.... already more than a decade!!!! your photo app is already very good and now that MS has dropped its photo app people will naturally use google photos.....please dont add this photo app on the new page....its horrible!
• (2021-04-24) Korey Leicher: It would only show me two of my photos, no matter how many tabs I opened. Even the settings weren't helpful. Would not recommend, but who reads the reviews on web store anyway?
• (2020-07-16) Rowena Luk: Highly recommend. Photos New Tab is a great way to bring a smile to my day at work, by reminding me of a good memory every time I open a new tab on my browser. I appreciate being able to selectively pick which Google Photos albums to show.
• (2020-07-14) KEPENATUAAN PANGKALPINANG: good
• (2020-02-14) Jessene Beecroft: Thank you
• (2019-08-29) madi: I have been frustrated for quite a while that I had to just choose one picture as a background. This app has been a blessing. Keep up the hard work!!
• (2019-05-04) Dany Elías Cisneros: Buena, se ven tus fotos en una nueva pestaña.
• (2019-03-16) Michael Bauer: I couldn't use this extension first, because something was changed at Googles side and the extension didn't work. I asked for support and the developer fixed it, so now I can use the extension and I love it! Seeing all the long forgotten photos from my albums is awesome.
• (2019-03-07) CMP: Hooray! No more getting stuck on "getting list of albums". Google broke it, but Cory fixed it. Thanks for your great extension, Cory!!!!
• (2019-02-05) Greg Bem: Doesn't load albums! Infinite loop.
• (2018-12-15) Karen “Silly Grandma”: it may be just me , but i can not get my pics off the screen , when i get on here they are here
• (2018-12-03) Josiah Coad: Hey Cory, is this open source? If so, I'd love to contribute. There's a couple of recommendations I'd like to make, if I may. 0. Can you please use the google Photo API instead of the strange "get.google.com/albumarchive" that I've never heard of before and doesn't accurately reflect my google photos library. 1. The contain option would be nice if it looked a little more polished... reflective photo option, white backdrop, etc 2. Options to filter images shown by location, time, keyword, etc... 3. A thumbnail google map showing where the image was taken Otherwise I love it! One of my favorite extensions. Again, would love to be able to contribute. Thanks! P.S. I found https://github.com/czue/chrome-google-photos in hope but the repo was empty!
• (2018-09-26) It's pretty good, but my only complaint is the lack of a full screen option. I really don't like having black bars on the screen. Please add this option, and I'll give it 5 stars.
• (2018-04-21) Rob Bednark: Sweet extension, exactly what I was looking for! I love the ability to be able to sign-in to a different Google account than the one I'm currently signed-in to Chrome as.
• (2018-02-24) Josh Borzick: Simple, perfect. Love seeing old photos pop up.
• (2018-01-18) Thomas Harrison: Really cool concept and works great. Would love to have the option to "fit" the image to the tab by cropping or zooming.
• (2017-12-24) Ben Horten: This is my new favorite Google extension! I love getting surprised by old photos every time I open a new tab. If possible, I'd second the idea to prevent video stills from popping up, but I'd also be interested in seeing you collaborate with Tab for a Cause! I really like the idea behind that one, too, but if I were able to use that with random images from my Google photos like you've done here, that would be the dream. But, of course, above all else, thank you for making this!
• (2017-12-12) Vinod Kurup: I love seeing glimpses of photos that I otherwise would probably never see again!
• (2017-09-30) John Otto: I've been waiting for someone to create an extension that does this for ages. It works great! I'd love to see some customization options, especially: filtering (e.g. orientation, excluding videos/animations), aspect ratio/fill screen options, and ability to show/hide the album name/date.
• (2017-07-06) Brad Hebert: Love it! So glad you can choose which albums are used. Developer is very responsive as well.
• (2017-06-04) Simon Kelly: Great to have see those random photo's that are just languishing in the cloud.
• (2017-05-29) Cory Zue: I might be biased since I'm the author, but I love this extension! Using it brightens my day constantly.

Latest issues

• (2021-08-16, v:0.25) Josh Borzick: "Loading Shared Albums..."
  I used to use Photo New Tab and absolutely loved it, then one day it stopped working for me and instead showed "Loading Shared Albums..." I tried uninstalling/reinstalling and removing/re-granting access via my Google account. This was a year or two ago and I stopped using it. Yesterday I decided to give it another try and I'm still getting the same error.
• (2021-04-15, v:0.25) Joseph Mignone: Picture loading after another picture is already loaded
  Sometimes but not every time, when I enter in the new tab, I will see one of my pictures, but then it loads another one. When this happens the picture that was there previously is lower if I scroll down (this is also the only time I can scroll down). If I were to guess the cause, I would say that maybe it's loading a picture in the cache previously shown if I haven't clicked a new tab in a while, although I can't remember if its the same picture. While this isn't really a big issue, I thought I should bring it up.
• (2020-04-20, v:0.25) CMP: I must be doing something wrong
  Hi Cory; I LOVE Photos New Tab and have been enjoying using it on my Chromebook for some time now. However, I just got a new Chromebook today but when I try to open a new tab, I get a random pic instead of my own G. Photos pics as I always would on my old Chromebook. I get a sign at the bottom of the random pic that says: "You need to connect your Google Account to see personalized photos". Then there's a button beside that says "Connect to Google Photos" - but nothing happens when I click on it. Is there something I'm missing here? When I go into my Extensions Manager for Photos New Tab, it lists that I have all the appropriate permissions, yet this is contradicted when I click on your little icon next to my address bar where it says "Can't read or change site's data" and the word "Options" below that is grayed out. I do enjoy Photos New Tab, so I hope you can help me!
• (2019-10-31, v:0.25) Aaron Brandt: Repeats
  Loving this extension. Only problem is that I often see the same picture several times in a row or a few times close together. I opened 10 new tabs and got pictures A and B twice, and picture C three times. Could you look into this? Maybe have an option where you have to go through all the photos before you see one again? Thanks for your time.
• (2019-06-05, v:0.24) Rob Bednark: Iterate through all photos before repeating
  I'd love it if Photos New Tab had functionality (either the default behavior, or a selectable feature) where it kept track of photos displayed, and didn't repeat any photos until they've all been displayed. Currently, it seems as if it's random, and if I open several tabs, I often see the same photo in multiple tabs (from an album of 523 photos).
• (2019-03-24, v:0.23) Version 0.23 still "Loading album data..."
  I've got the latest version of the extension and it's still not working after the Photo API update. I'm getting a JS error which doesn't seem that hairy: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'map' of undefined at main.bundle.js:formatted:481 The actual main_bundle.js is obviously minified, but after expanding it in the developer tools, I see that "r" is undefined at this point in the promise: function z(e, n, t, a, i, c) { var r = i ? T(n, t) : E(n, t); a && (r = r + "&pageToken=" + a), fetch(r).then(function(a) { a.ok && a.json().then(function(a) { var r = i ? a.sharedAlbums : a.albums , l = r.map(function(e) { return { id: e.id, title: e.title, visible: !0, loaded: !1, productUrl: e.productUrl, isShared: i, coverPhotoMediaItemId: e.coverPhotoMediaItemId, numPhotos: parseInt(e.mediaItemsCount) } }); e.push.apply(e, o(l)), a.nextPageToken ? z(e, n, t, a.nextPageToken, i, c) : c(e) }) }) } Can you take a look at it? Thanks!
• (2019-03-04, v:0.20) Stuck on "Getting list of albums..."
  Hi, thanks for the great extension. My elderly mom is loving it. Unfortunately it stopped working for her. I've tried to remove it and reinstall it again, but we stuck at the "Getting list of albums..." screen. I also tried on my account with a different laptop, but it does the same. Is it possible that I just missing something, or maybe the extension is broken? Please help me if you can, my mom is very sad because she can't see the family photos. Thanks.
• (2019-01-28, v:0.20) Michael Bauer: stuck on "getting list of albums"
  Hello Cory, after installing your extension from the webstore it asks me to login to Google to get access to Google Photos. However, after logging in, whenever I open a new Tab, the extension is getting stuck on "Getting list of albums...". The loading animation is working, but no matter how long I wait, it doesn't load. I tried to reinstall the app, but the problem still persists. Do you know what is going on there and how i can get it running? Thank you.
• (2018-12-09, v:0.20) Josiah Coad: Open Source Contributions
  Hey Cory, is this open source? If so, I'd love to contribute. There's a couple of recommendations I'd like to make, if I may. 0. Can you please use the google Photo API instead of the strange "get.google.com/albumarchive" that I've never heard of before and doesn't accurately reflect my google photos library. 1. The contain option would be nice if it looked a little more polished... reflective photo option, white backdrop, etc 2. Options to filter images shown by location, time, keyword, etc... 3. A thumbnail google map showing where the image was taken Otherwise I love it! One of my favorite extensions. Again, would love to be able to contribute. Thanks! P.S. I found https://github.com/czue/chrome-google-photos in hope but the repo was empty!
• (2018-04-21, v:0.18) Rob Bednark: Show history
  Thank you for this excellent extension, Cory! I would love to see a "history" button that I could click and show the history of photos shown. A lot of times I open a tab, go to a web page, and then someone says "Hey, what was that picture?", but I can't navigate back to it, because going back shows a new photo.
• (2018-04-19, v:0.18) Danny Roberts: When I click on an album link, it lands me on a 404 page
  Hey Cory, Sweet extension. Just started using it. It may be because I have two google accounts, and the one I've linked seems to be my non-default one? Cheers, Danny
• (2018-02-28, v:0.17) Chad Kafka: Not seeing some newer Albums?
  Hi there - loving this Extension in my Chrome Browser. Thanks for developing it! When I go to the CONFIGURE area, I notice that some albums I have created in the last few months aren't there in the list. (Christmas time, some others) Yet...one I just made this week IS there. Is there anything I can do to make this work better or to see my albums? Happy to share info if it helps...